[hn92726819]

If they are keeping your article cached, what's the point of saying it's a high-performance blog? Saying it's slow because the CDN down means that it's just slow... You can have a 'high performance' blog run on a raspberry pi zero if it's globally cached by someone else, but then I wouldn't say that's high performance.

Cool article though. Agree on the ructe part, and I dislike how whitespace is handled. I wish Jade/Pug templates could be done in rust but will check out Maud.

[xena]

The blog itself is fast. The internet is the slow part.

[xena]

I thought of a better way to phrase it. The website itself is fast, but the process of you observing the website is slow because of limitations of the speed of light (or other interconnects the internet uses to get your traffic to Helsinki).

[joshspankit]

I think what you’re saying is that if OP were to test your site from Helsinki they would see the server speed you’re talking about. Is that right?

[xena]

Yeah, unless I can find a CDN to cache my blog (and maybe its static assets) that would be affordable enough for my needs.

[bradgessler]

I wrote an article about making server-side rendered sites fast around the world without a CDN at https://fly.io/ruby-dispatch/semi-static-websites/

My examples are in Ruby, which is super slow compared to what you’re doing. Now I’m super curious what kind of performance you’d get globally on Fly if you deployed to a bunch of different regions.

[xena]

If you can help me get a Nix flake running on Fly, I'll try it!